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	500 GB Hard Disk Drive Round-Up Reviews - October 10, 2008 - By Gabriel Torres We compared the performance of ten different 500 GB SATA-300 hard disk drive models from Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital and Hitachi. Which is the fastest 500 GB in the market? Check it out!
Thecus N5200 NAS Review Reviews - August 16, 2008 - By Gabriel Torres Thecus N5200 is a high-performance Network Attached Storage (NAS), a box where you install hard disk drives to make them available to your network, with five bays supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and JBOD and several other features. 320 GB Hard Disk Drive Round-Up Reviews - August 13, 2008 - By Gabriel Torres We compared the performance of nine 320 GB SATA-300 hard disk drive models from Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital and Hitachi. Which is the fastest 320 GB in the market? Check it out!
	250 GB Hard Disk Drive Round-Up Reviews - July 29, 2008 - By Gabriel Torres We compared the performance of nine mainstream 250 GB SATA-300 hard disk drive models from Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital, Maxtor and Hitachi. Which is the fastest 250 GB in the market? Check it out!
	160 GB Hard Disk Drive Round-Up Reviews - July 17, 2008 - By Rafael Otto Coelho We compared the performance of three mainstream 160 GB hard disk drives: Maxtor STM3160215AS, Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160 GB and Samsung HD161HJ. Which one presents the highest performance? Read on.
	Everything You Need to Know About Serial ATA Tutorials - June 27, 2008 - By Gabriel Torres Everything you need to know about Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drive technology is here. Updated to include important information on the SATA-150/SATA-300 jumper.
	Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS Hard Disk Drive Review Reviews - June 19, 2008 - By Gabriel Torres VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS is a 10,000 rpm SATA-300 hard disk drive and in this review we will answer two questions: how much faster is a 10,000 rpm disk compared to a mainstream 7,200 rpm one? What is the best option, to have one 10,000 rpm disk or two mainstream 7,200 rpm disks in RAID0? Results corrected.
	HighPoint RocketRAID 2302 RAID Controller Review Reviews - June 2, 2008 - By Gabriel Torres Our review of HighPoint RocketRAID 2302, a simple RAID controller with two SATA-300 ports and two eSATA-300 ports based on PCI Express and supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD.
	Thermaltake Max 4 Active Cooling HDD Enclosure Review Reviews - March 13, 2008 - By Gabriel Torres Max 4 Active Cooling is a hard drive enclosure from Thermaltake featuring both USB 2.0 and eSATA connections.
	Thermaltake BlacX HDD Docking Station Review Reviews - March 12, 2008 - By Gabriel Torres BlacX is an external hard drive docking station that allows you to connect hard disk drives externally to the PC thru the computer USB 2.0 port by just inserting them on the available slot.
	How to Install a Floppy Disk Drive Tutorials - November 17, 2007 - By Gabriel Torres A step-by-step guide showing you how to install (or replace) a floppy disk drive.
	Hard Disk Drives Capacity Limits Tutorials - October 1, 2007 - By Gabriel Torres Your system doesn�t recognize your new hard drive�s full capacity? Learn all capacity barriers that you may face when installing a new hard disk drive on your system.
	Does RAID0 Really Increase Disk Performance? Reviews - November 1, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres We set a RAID0 system with stripe sizes from 4 KB to 128 KB to answer two questions: Does RAID0 really increase disk performance? If yes, what is the best stripe size to use? Check it out.
	How to Setup a RAID System Tutorials - October 24, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres A step-by-step guide on how to setup a RAID system on your PC in order to increase your hard disk drive performance or to improve data reliability.
	Robson Technology Overview Articles - September 27, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres The next Centrino platform (Santa Rosa) will feature an integrated disk cache using flash memory in order to speed up disk access and also save energy, codenamed Robson. Learn how it will work.
	How Perpendicular Recording Works Tutorials - June 26, 2006 - By C�ssio Lima Everything you need to know about the new perpendicular recording hard disk drive technology.
	NCQ (Native Command Queuing) and TCQ (Tagged Command Queuing) Explained Tutorials - April 16, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres Everything you need to know about NCQ and TCQ command queuing tecnologies, which improve the hard disk drive performance.
	RAID6 Advantages Over RAID0 and RAID5 Articles - April 15, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres Learn the reliability advantages of RAID6 over RAID0 and RAID5.
	Samsung SP2504C 250 GB SATA-300 Hard Disk Drive Review Reviews - March 30, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres Our review of Samsung SP2504C hard disk drive, a 250 GB HDD based on SATA-300 interface with 8 MB cache, 7,200 rpm and supporting NCQ.
	Cleaning Up Your Windows-Based PC Tutorials - March 15, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres A step-by-step guide on how to clean your PC for freeing up hard disk space and improving its performance.
	X-Micro Mini DisGo 20 GB Review Reviews - November 22, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres Review of the very small 20 GB external hard disk drive (USB 2.0) from X-Micro.
	Data Recovery Myths Tutorials - November 12, 2005 - By Edson Buriche Coutinho Have you ever heard about freezing the hard drive, opening it in a bathroom full of steam or swapping its logic board in order to revive a dead hard drive? These are just a few of the several data recovery myths we have debunked in this tutorial.
	Solving Problems in Windows XP File System Tutorials - September 16, 2005 - By C�ssio Lima Learn how to solve Windows XP file system problems.
	CE-ATA Standard Articles - August 23, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres Learn about the new CE-ATA standard, a new hard disk drive standard targeted to consumer electronics products.
	Anatomy of a Floppy Disk Drive Tutorials - August 16, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres Take a look how a floppy disk drive looks like inside and learn about its main components.
	Anatomy of an Optical Drive Tutorials - August 10, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres Ever wondered what is inside an optical drive? In this tutorial you will learn all about the main optical drive components.
	Anatomy of a Hard Disk Drive Tutorials - August 5, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres Ever wondered what is inside a hard disk drive? In this tutorial we will show you the main hard drive components, both internal and external.
	How to Install Hard Drives over 8 GB in Older PCs Tutorials - August 3, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres If you install a HD over 8 GB in an older PC it will format it as 8 GB. Learn how to correct this problem.
	Samsung SP1604N Hard Disk Drive Review Reviews - May 12, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres Review of Samsung SP1604N 160 GB ATA/133 7,200 rpm hard drive.
	How to Really Delete your Files Tutorials - May 11, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres When you delete a file or format your hard drive your data isn't really deleted and can be recovered. If your have sensitive data, you must learn how to really erase data from your hard drive.
	Data Recovery Boards from Radix Reviews - April 22, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres With one Radix board installed on your PC, if something wrong happens you can recover your hard disk to the point it was before the problem occured.
	How to Buy a DVD Recorder Tutorials - February 21, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres Some tips on how to buy a DVD recorder.
	Transforming your Single Layer DVD Recorder into a Double Layer One Tutorials - February 16, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres Some 4.7 GB DVD recorders can be transformed into 8.5 GB DVD recorders. Learn how.
	Unlocking your DVD Unit Tutorials - February 15, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres Learn how to break the area code protection that DVD units have, allowing you to play any DVD disc from any country in the world in your PC.
	Recovering Scratched CDs Tutorials - November 24, 2004 - By Gabriel Torres Learn how to recover scratched CD discs.
	How to Create a Bootable CD-ROM Tutorials - November 24, 2004 - By Gabriel Torres Learn how to create a bootable CD-ROM.
	DVD Media Tutorials - November 24, 2004 - By Gabriel Torres Learn the difference between the several DVD media types available at the market: DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, etc.
	How to Transform a CD-ROM Drive into a Car CD Player Tutorials - November 24, 2004 - By Gabriel Torres Learn how to transform a CD-ROM drive into a car CD player.
	Everything you need to know about RAID Tutorials - November 20, 2004 - By Gabriel Torres RAID is not target to servers anymore. Even mainstream motherboards are coming with this feature nowadays. Learn what it is and are the advantages of using this system.
	Measuring CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Performance Tutorials - November 4, 2004 - By Gabriel Torres Learn how to correctly measure your CD-ROM and DVD-ROM performance.
	Everything You Need to Know About CD-R Media Tutorials - October 27, 2004 - By Alberto Cozer Understand in depth how a CD-R media is made and why there are media that is better than others.
	Explosive CD-ROM Tutorials - October 25, 2004 - By Gabriel Torres Some CD media literally explodes inside the CD-ROM drive. Learn why this happens.
	Everything you Need to Know About ATA-66, ATA-100 and ATA-133 Hard Disks Tutorials - October 23, 2004 - By Gabriel Torres Learn how to achieve the maximum performance from ATA-66, ATA-100 and ATA-133 hard disks. It is not just a matter of plugging in your new hard drive.
	Recovering Hard Disks Erased by the CIH Virus Tutorials - October 17, 2004 - By Gabriel Torres How to recover hard disks erased by the CIH (a.k.a. Chernobyl or Spacefiller) virus.
	Recovering Hard Disks with Bad Blocks Tutorials - October 14, 2004 - By Gabriel Torres Learn how to remove "bad blocks" from hard disks.

News

[Oct 09, 2008] Kingston Launches 32 GB DataTraveler Flash Memory
[Sep 23, 2008] Imation Announces WUSB External Hard Disk
[Sep 16, 2008] Corsair Offers 64 GB Flash Voyager
[Sep 16, 2008] Western Digital Launches 500 GB Portable Hard Drives
[Aug 25, 2008] Lexar Launches 16 GB JumpDrive FireFly Flash Memory
[Aug 18, 2008] Thermaltake Launches BlacX A
[Aug 12, 2008] Kingmax Launches PD07 USB Flash Memories
[Jul 02, 2008] OCZ Announces Core Series SATA-300 2.5" SSD
[Jun 13, 2008] Western Digital Black Caviar Series
[Jun 12, 2008] OCZ Launches Spyder Flash Memory
[Jun 02, 2008] Silicon-Power Releases Ultima 150
[May 29, 2008] Transcend Intros New JetFlash 110
[May 12, 2008] Transcend Launches StoreJet 35 Ultra
[May 07, 2008] HighPoint Intros RocketRAID 2640X4
[May 05, 2008] Silicon-Power Intros 128 GB SSD

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